And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Apparently there are EU regulations that require a certain percentage of the fleet to be EV. Maybe that means that this is a sacrificial EV model that keeps them compliant? - macxcool
Anon,I read about that also and article I read said they did not make some ev's they would face heavy fines thus costing even more dollars for ice Ferraris.
They should have just built a ev shoebox and called it done,not even try and match up to their real cars.
Car manufacturers have been required to restrict, increasingly, their average cumulative carbon emissions across their manufactured models for the year. Having an EV allows them to continue producing big block high performance cars. Government f**** up everything it touches.
The way I read that article, it's not that they had to have some percentage of EVs, it's that their fleet mileage has to meet a standard that they couldn't meet without a lot of EVs as a share of their (small and shrinking) market.
And, which one came first?
ReplyDeleteI suspect appearance is one of the few things they have in common...
ReplyDeleteThat, and the fact that they are both overpriced.
DeleteThe Ferrari has that black dohicky behind the wheel. That's $500k right there.
DeleteWouldn't drive either.
ReplyDelete$30,000 for a tiny POS vehicle?
ReplyDeleteJohn, you beat me to it. - Snakepit
DeletePass on both. I will keep the F350.
ReplyDeleteIf yours is diesel that is $180 a tank!
DeleteAt that price how long before you start looking at these cars and having second thoughts?
One of the guys on Chris Harris' podcast made the same comparison.
ReplyDeleteIf youre gonna troll a supercar...doing it right.
ReplyDeleteForm follows function.
ReplyDeleteAnd the long hood is to meet a regulation requiring a crumple zone.
ReplyDeleteFugly, I'd rather have a Chinese BYD Yangwang U9
ReplyDeleteUntil the battery explodes because it's mounted below the subframe and you hit a rock.
DeleteAnd both are as practical as prickly pear toilet paper.
ReplyDeleteTheir stock immediately took a 8% hit when they unveiled it.
ReplyDeleteApparently there are EU regulations that require a certain percentage of the fleet to be EV. Maybe that means that this is a sacrificial EV model that keeps them compliant?
ReplyDelete- macxcool
Anon,I read about that also and article I read said they did not make some ev's they would face heavy fines thus costing even more dollars for ice Ferraris.
DeleteThey should have just built a ev shoebox and called it done,not even try and match up to their real cars.
Car manufacturers have been required to restrict, increasingly, their average cumulative carbon emissions across their manufactured models for the year.
ReplyDeleteHaving an EV allows them to continue producing big block high performance cars.
Government f**** up everything it touches.
Amen to that!
DeleteThe way I read that article, it's not that they had to have some percentage of EVs, it's that their fleet mileage has to meet a standard that they couldn't meet without a lot of EVs as a share of their (small and shrinking) market.
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